Category: General

Cameroon and the Central African Republic have agreed to demarcate several hundred kilometers of their shared border. The countries have

JOHANNESBURG— China has overtaken the US as the foreign power seen as having the biggest positive influence in Africa by young people, according to a survey released here.The survey conducted by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation found that 76% of 4,507 …

Nigerian authorities say they have launched a search for 17 people abducted Tuesday in the capital, Abuja, by armed men disguised as police. Nigeria has seen a wave of mass abductions for ransom in the country’s north, but the insecurity rarely reaches…

Britain has canceled its first deportation flight to Rwanda after a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights, which decided there was “a real risk of irreversible harm” to the asylum-seekers involved.The flight had been scheduled…

A new study has found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks and Kenya prepares to vote in a closely contested national…

A court in Senegal on Monday sentenced a fugitive rebel leader and two other men to life in prison for murder and armed insurrection over a massacre that claimed 14 lives.Cesar Atoute Badiate, head of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFD…

In Cameroon, hundreds of people have protested attacks on schools, churches, and clinics in the country’s troubled west after a hospital in the city of Mamfe was torched. Cameroon’s military and separatists traded blame for last week’s attack.Camerooni…

GENEVA— The United Nations on Monday begged world trade ministers meeting at the WTO not to impose export restrictions on food for humanitarian purposes, amid a food security crisis. The UN’s human rights chief Michelle Bachelet and its trade and deve…